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Tracker Hero: It’s Guitar Hero, but on the Amiga!

8 Comments Posted by on August 18, 2012

Hi guys,

Did you know that there is a game similar to Guitar Hero and Dance, Dance Revolution on the Amiga?

It is called Tracker Hero and it is based on songs in the .MOD (music module) format. You can actually hook up a real Playstation guitar to your Amiga and use it to play the game.. awesome stuff!

Tracker Hero is freeware and can be downloaded from sites like Aminet.net. It was developed by a group of people calling themselves GUS Entertainment. They won an award (Amiga Games Award) for their game back in 2011, which you can read more about here.

The game was developed on an Amiga 1200 in combination with WinUAE. AmiBlitz2 was used for programming, Personal Paint for graphics and Protracker for music.

I mentioned that you could use a Playstation guitar to play the game, but Tracker Hero also supports dance mats, old-school joysticks, joypads and keyboards. :)

The latest release is from the 24th of June 2012, so it looks like it is being updated from time to time.

If you want to change or add music to the game, you can do that for free. There are thousands upon thousands of tunes around the Internet that you can download and use at once. Great stuff! :)

I’ve included some video footage I found of the game below. Hope you’ll enjoy the videos! (you must hear the music on the second video.. it is the soundtrack from a Swedish Amiga demo called Bosnisk Metal (made by Gigatron).. great tune for headbangers!)

Have a good weekend everyone! :)

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Video: My Amiga 1200 hooked up to the Internet

8 Comments Posted by on May 17, 2012

Hi guys,

I know that some of you were interested in seeing a video of my Amiga 1200 being connected to the Internet. I’ve therefore recorded a video for you today. :)

I’ve embedded it below, so please have a look and tell me what you think. Sorry about the flickering on the CRT-screen during the video, but I don’t know how to avoid this.

I’d also like to send a special greeting to The Heretic for the nice logo he made for my blog. I’ve used it as the intro-picture in my video. Thanks a lot mate!! :)

Without further ado, here’s the video of my Amiga 1200 on the Internet:


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Amiga 1200: Upgrading to 128MB RAM

5 Comments Posted by on May 11, 2012

Hi guys,

Today I received a new upgrade for my Amiga 1200, a 128MB EDO 60NS 72-PIN SIMM, that I bought from a nice seller on AmiBay. :)

The memory module is quite slim, so it was very easy to install it in my Microbotics 1230 XA accelerator.

Here’s a few pictures of the SIMM and my turbo-card:

128MB EDO 60NS 72-PIN SIMM (photo by Old School Game Blog)

128MB EDO 60NS 72-PIN SIMM (photo by Old School Game Blog)

The memory module is now installed in the Microbotics 1230 XA (photo by Old School Game Blog)

The memory module is now installed in the Microbotics 1230 XA (photo by Old School Game Blog)

The turbo-card fits nicely in the trapdoor slot of the Amiga 1200 with the memory module in place. Had no problems closing the slot with the lid afterwards (photo by Old School Game Blog)

The turbo-card fits nicely in the trapdoor slot of the Amiga 1200 with the memory module in place. Had no problems closing the slot with the lid afterwards (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Workbench showing the amount of free memory, a number which I found higher than expected! (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Workbench showing the amount of free memory, a number which I found higher than expected! (photo by Old School Game Blog)

I’ve never had this much memory in my Amiga before. The most I’ve had in the past was 32MB of RAM. :)

Now over to something completely different..

Since I’ve got the opportunity, I’d like to mention a post by my friend StiGGy about Wolfenstein 3D. It turns out that this game will become 20 years old in the near future! :) Because of this, I thought I’d better look into some Amiga ports of the game. I downloaded a recent one from Aminet.net (AWolf3D.lha) and gave it a go. The performance was not great on my setup and it ran slower than the various Doom-ports I’ve tried, but it was playable when I scaled the screen a bit down. I might be able to download a few utilities to speed up my setup as well, so that should help. Anyway, it was fun to see this game running on the Amiga after all those years.

Happy anniversary Wolfenstein 3D! :D

Wolfenstein 3D on the Amiga (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Wolfenstein 3D on the Amiga (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Before I stop writing, I’d like to mention that I’m still working on the videos I’ve talked about in previous posts. I’m not satisfied with the quality yet and I think I should get some kind of equipment to hold the camera in place. My hands are shaking a bit when filming and it is also difficult to use the mouse/keyboard at the same time. ;)

Have a good weekend folks and many thanks for reading!

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My Amiga 1200: Going Online

30 Comments Posted by on April 19, 2012

Hey guys,

Some of you asked me if I could upload a some pictures of my Amiga 1200 in action on the Internet. I’ve therefore taken a few photos that I’d like to share with you. Hope you’ll enjoy them! :)

Using Google Mobile (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Using Google Mobile to do some serious web crawling. ;) Visiting pages meant for mobile devices is nice on the Amiga, as they aren't crammed to the limits with gigantic pictures and such. On the top of the machine, you can spot a WLAN card that is not in use at the moment. (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Visiting Amigaworld.net (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Visiting Amigaworld.net, the well-known Amiga discussion forum (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Having a look at AmiBay (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Having a look at AmiBay (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Using AmiFTP to access ftp.aminet.net (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Using AmiFTP to access ftp.aminet.net. This program is very handy for downloading files. There are several Amiga orientated FTP's out there that contains all kinds of cool stuff. I remember buying those Aminet CD's back in the 90's. Much easier to download the files straight from the FTP. Still, I love my old Aminet CD's. (photo by Old School Game Blog)

Is your Amiga hooked up to the Internet? Or maybe you have another kind of retro machine that you’ve gotten Online? Would love to hear about it. :)

Before I stop writing, I must say that using an Amiga 1200 with a 68030 CPU and some Fast-RAM works well with the Internet. I can run several programs at the same time, downloading from FTP, playing music, watch pictures and so forth. Browsing is of course limited, but it works. ;)

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